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Al shabab beheads a businessman in southern Somalia
2012-04-25
(Sh.M.Networl)- Armed men belonging to Al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
, the radical Islamist movement in Somalia beheaded a businessman living in Eel Adde, about 90 km southwest of Mogadishu, relatives confirmed on Tuesday.

The beheaded body whose identity has not been released so far was found on Tuesday morning with headless on the outskirts of Eel Adde town, a stronghold of Al shabab in Middle Shabelle region, south Somalia.

Residents in Eel Adde district informed Shabelle media by phone that the gunnies have pulled the man out of a car traveling from Jowhar to his home town El-Adde overnight and then his body was found lying at the town this morning.

Al shabab accused the man of being a spySomaliagovernment in the town- an allegation that locals denied and said the guy was a well-known livestock trader in the entire region.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Probably one of those direct threats to islam, the dreaded soccer jersey vendor.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-04-25 11:20  

#1  And politicians like Kieth Ellison want to make it easier for Somali-Americans to wire money back home that will almost certainly end up in the pockets of al-Shabaab.

What could go wrong?
Posted by: American Delight   2012-04-25 06:55  

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